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Census of Population and Housing, 1990 [United States]: Public Use Microdata Sample: 1/10,000 Sample (ICPSR 6150)

Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census;
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Summary:

This dataset, prepared by the Inter-university Consortium
for Political and Social Research, comprises 1 percent of the cases in
the second release of CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 1990 [UNITED
STATES]: PUBLIC USE MICRODATA SAMPLE: 1-PERCENT SAMPLE (ICPSR 9951). As
1 percent of the 1-Percent Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), the file
constitutes a 1-in-10,000 sample, and contains all housing and
population variables in the original 1-Percent PUMS. Housing variables
include area type, state and area of residence, farm/nonfarm status,
type of structure, year structure was built, vacancy and boarded-up
status, number of rooms and bedrooms, presence or absence of a
telephone, presence or absence of complete kitchen and plumbing
facilities, type of sewage, water source and heating fuel used,
property value, tenure, year moved into house/apartment, type of
household/family, type of group quarters, language spoken in household,
number of persons, related children, own/adopted children, and
stepchildren in the household, number of persons and workers in the
family, status of mortgage, second mortgage, and home equity loan,
number of vehicles available, household income, sales of agricultural
products, payments for rent, mortgage, and property tax, condominium
fees, mobile home costs, and costs for electricity, water, heating
fuel, and flood/fire/hazard insurance. Person variables cover age, sex,
and relationship to householder, educational attainment, school
enrollment, race, Hispanic origin, ancestry, language spoken at home,
citizenship, place of birth, year of immigration, place of residence in
1985, marital status, number of children ever born, presence and age of
own children, military service, mobility and personal care limitations,
work limitation status, employment status, employment status of
parents, occupation, industry, and class of worker, hours worked last
week, weeks worked in 1989, usual hours worked per week, temporary
absences from work, place of work, time of departure for work, travel
time to work, means of transportation to work, number of occupants in
vehicle during ride to work, total earnings, total income, wages, and
salary income, farm and nonfarm self-employment income, Social Security
income, public assistance income, retirement income, and rent,
dividend, and net rental income.

This dataset, prepared by the Inter-university Consortium
for Political and Social Research, comprises 1 percent of the cases in
the second release of CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 1990 [UNITED
STATES]: PUBLIC USE MICRODATA SAMPLE: 1-PERCENT SAMPLE (ICPSR 9951). As
1 percent of the 1-Percent Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), the file
constitutes a 1-in-10,000 sample, and contains all housing and
population variables in the original 1-Percent PUMS. Housing variables
include area type, state and area of residence, farm/nonfarm status,
type of structure, year structure was built, vacancy and boarded-up
status, number of rooms and bedrooms, presence or absence of a
telephone, presence or absence of complete kitchen and plumbing
facilities, type of sewage, water source and heating fuel used,
property value, tenure, year moved into house/apartment, type of
household/family, type of group quarters, language spoken in household,
number of persons, related children, own/adopted children, and
stepchildren in the household, number of persons and workers in the
family, status of mortgage, second mortgage, and home equity loan,
number of vehicles available, household income, sales of agricultural
products, payments for rent, mortgage, and property tax, condominium
fees, mobile home costs, and costs for electricity, water, heating
fuel, and flood/fire/hazard insurance. Person variables cover age, sex,
and relationship to householder, educational attainment, school
enrollment, race, Hispanic origin, ancestry, language spoken at home,
citizenship, place of birth, year of immigration, place of residence in
1985, marital status, number of children ever born, presence and age of
own children, military service, mobility and personal care limitations,
work limitation status, employment status, employment status of
parents, occupation, industry, and class of worker, hours worked last
week, weeks worked in 1989, usual hours worked per week, temporary
absences from work, place of work, time of departure for work, travel
time to work, means of transportation to work, number of occupants in
vehicle during ride to work, total earnings, total income, wages, and
salary income, farm and nonfarm self-employment income, Social Security
income, public assistance income, retirement income, and rent,
dividend, and net rental income.

Study Description

Citation

U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, and Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 1990 [UNITED STATES]: PUBLIC USE MICRODATA SAMPLE: 1/10,000 SAMPLE. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 1992. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1993. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06150.v1

(1) To approximate weighted frequencies given by the
original 1-Percent PUMS, users should multiply the weight variables,
HOUSWGT and PWGT1, by 100. (2) This dataset has the same hierarchical
structure as the original 1-Percent PUMS. There is a separate record
type for each of the two levels in the hierarchy: the housing level is
represented by a housing record comprising 112 housing variables, the
person level by a person record comprising 123 person variables. (These
variable counts do not include the housing serial number, SERIALNO, and
the variable denoting the record type, RECTYPE. These two variables
appear on both the housing and person records.) Each occupied housing
unit is represented by a single housing record followed by one or more
person records, one for each person in the household. Housing records
representing vacant housing units are not followed by any person
records. Each person residing in group quarters is represented by a
housing record followed by a person record. In all, this dataset
contains 36,179 records: 11,074 housing records and 25,105 person
records. Every housing and person record has a logical record length of
231. (3) Appendix G of the codebook (PUMS maps) is available only in
hard copy form upon request from ICPSR. (4) Code 5, which denotes this
1/10,000 sample, has been added to the variable SAMPLE.

Methodology

Sample:
The 1-in-10,000 sample, extracted from the 1-Percent PUMS
by ICPSR using a systematic selection procedure, contains all housing
records in the 1-Percent PUMS coded 16 for the subsample variable,
SUBSAMPL, plus all person records associated with these housing
records. The number 16 was randomly chosen among the 100 possible codes
for SUBSAMPL, 00 to 99. (See Chapter 4 of the codebook for an
explanation of how SUBSAMPL may be used to select PUMS subsamples.) The
1-Percent PUMS, derived from responses to the 1990 Census long-form
questionnaire, is a 1-percent stratified sample of persons and housing
units enumerated in the 1990 Census (housing units and their occupants,
vacant housing units, and persons in group quarters). The long-form
questionnaire was administered to approximately 15.9 percent of
households counted by the Census.

Data Source:

self-enumerated questionnaires

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: